Saturday, five bands will invade the Brewery for an affordable night of live, original music.
Sugarhigh will play a Cherry Darling show at 9 p.m. at the Brewery, along with the Bermondsey Joyriders, The Sweet Ones, Guitar Bomb and the Whatleys. The cover charge for the over-21 show is $3.
Though Cherry Darling organizes weekly shows every Tuesday, Cherry Darling Productions owner Meredith Rebar said Saturday shows will happen monthly.
"The Brewery has given me one weekend show a month," Rebar said. "I can get more national bands than I do for the regular Tuesday shows, but there still will always be a local band, too."
The bands playing Saturday's show are diverse, which Rebar said would please almost anyone.
"It's $3 for five bands," Rebar said. "Even if you don't know the bands, you can't beat that."
Doug Cote, vocalist and songwriter for The Sweet Ones, said the show is a good alternative to the standard bar scene.
"You can go and sit in a bar any day of the week, but with live music shows, like this one, you have the experience of hearing live music and seeing it in action," Cote said.
Rebar described Sugarhigh's sound as pop punk, which contrasts with the hardcore sound of Old School 101 and Dodgeball, the former bands two Sugarhigh members were a part of.
"They sound more like old-school Green Day," Rebar said.
Brooklyn-based The Sweet Ones, the third band of the night, appeared on The Lion 90.7 FM's Indie 500 radio show on Thursday to promote the show. Rebar also hosts Indie 500.
Cote described The Sweet Ones' sound as "not straight-up punk, but more like garage and punk rock." This will be The Sweet Ones' third time playing in State College.
"We play what we like: '70s rock, early '80s skate bands like Black Flag and dirty guitars," Cote said.
Cote said The Sweet Ones tries to perform to its own standards.
"I expect to see bands and be blown away," Cote said.
The Bermondsey Joyriders are heavily influenced by early punk, while Guitar Bomb is more blues-based. In fact, several members of the Bermondsey Joyriders were formerly a part of influential British groups, which Rebar said adds to their punk credibility.
"The Bermondsey Joyriders are actually from England," Rebar said. "They were around during the original '70s punk movement."
